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Fri, July 3, 2020 | 05:17

[EXCLUSIVE] Over 41,000 undocumented immigrants leaving Korea under amnesty program

[EXCLUSIVE] Over 41,000 undocumented immigrants leaving Korea under amnesty program

More than 41,000 undocumented foreign nationals living in Korea have left the country - or have promised to do so in the near future - over the past six months under a special amnesty program. Korea Immigration Service (KIS) Commissioner Cha Gyu-geun told The Korea Times in a recent interview that 41,176 foreign nationals staying here illegally - more than 10 percent of the e...

Jung Min-ho | 2020-07-01 15:00

[RAS Korea] The next generation of Korean scholars

[RAS Korea] The next generation of Korean scholars

Four outstanding Korean high school students were chosen, from among their peers, in Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea's first-ever essay contest. These young people took a bold step and submitted essays on Korean history and culture ― in English. The judges were challenged to choose and rank the entries for prizes. The relevance of the topic, the essayists' development of th...

2020-06-30 18:49

Community builder award honors int'l center head

Community builder award honors int'l center head

Gwangju in southwestern Korea has no shortage of community spirit. An annual award for local community builders has been given to Shin Gyong-gu, a professor emeritus of Chonnam National University and director of the Gwangju International Center (GIC).

2020-06-30 17:52

Itaewon businesses promote positivity with challenge

Itaewon businesses promote positivity with challenge

Businesses in Itaewon are looking to move on from the “Itaewon Cluster” stigma and bring people back to the district that has become a virtual ghost town since early May. To do that, three local foreign owned businesses including The Flow Room, Sprout and Wasteupso decided to work together and host a month-long event called Inner-Outer Glow in July to not only bring some posi...

2020-06-23 18:10

[Korea Encounters] Discrimination, stifled protests, race riots in 1971

[Korea Encounters] Discrimination, stifled protests, race riots in 1971

Several Black Lives Matter rallies were held in Korea in the second weekend of June - taking place in Seoul and at U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, where a race riot took place in 1971.

2020-06-23 18:09

[INTERVIEW] Korea's Cambodian carom queen banks on Southeast Asia

[INTERVIEW] Korea's Cambodian carom queen banks on Southeast Asia

SUWON - Sruong Pheavy, Korea's top-ranked three-cushion carom player and world's No.2, wants more than just to win more games. The wife of a Korean man wants to broaden the games appeal in Cambodia - her mother land - and throughout the Southeast Asia where snooker and other pocket ball sports are still relatively major. Behind this ambition is her passion that was sown just ...

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-06-21 15:00

[Korea Encounters] Itaewon once again at center of virus fears

[Korea Encounters] Itaewon once again at center of virus fears

South Korea has received international praise for its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, but just as the number of daily new cases dropped into the single digits, a new cluster appeared, centered on clubs in Itaewon.

2020-06-16 18:04

COVID-19 devastates Itaewon businesses

COVID-19 devastates Itaewon businesses

COVID-19 devastates Itaewon businesses

COVID-19 has done no favors to food and beverage businesses since the initial outbreak in Daegu months ago, but many restaurants continue to open as they find themselves in a catch-22. They won't survive if they don't open - but if they do, they have to just hope they aren't visited by an infected patient which puts them on the map.

2020-06-16 17:56

[Korea Encounters] Itaewon once again at center of virus fears

'Unqualified' expats question Seoul's guidelines for relief fund payments

'Unqualified' expats question Seoul's guidelines for relief fund payments

A tenured Indian university professor of economics in Seoul did not expect he would not receive the national disaster relief fund he thought was for all residents. Having lived in Korea with his family for 17 years, he contacted his local community center in Songpa District and called the Seoul City Help Center for Foreigners hotline to find out why - only to be told he was n...

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-06-16 09:04

Lack of disaster relief for expats unfair: watchdog

Lack of disaster relief for expats unfair: watchdog

The South Korean human rights watchdog has stepped in after the governments of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province in March excluded some foreign residents from their disaster relief funds amid COVID-19's blow to the domestic economy.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-06-12 17:31

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